I collect quotes as I read. Sometimes they are enlightening, sometimes cliche, but hey it works for me ... The quote is not necessarily the best in the book, but happens to be close where I stopped reading at night.

From March 28th - April 27th, 2007

April 27th ...
But by the time you're in your thirties, having traveled a sidewalk pockmarked with personal disappointment, you learn that life goes on. I knew there was a lid for every pot. Unfortunately, every lid I had found was a little warped or maybe I wasn't the right pot. It didn't matter because he was gone and a prolonged examination of his exit was a waste of my time. p379
Isle of Palms, by Dorothea Benton Frank, c.2003

April 26th ...

Worse, I had forgotten about the sense of belonging to the island had always given me. Loving it was one thing but it was marvelous to actually belong someplace. How many years had I spent feeling that I didn't belong anywhere that I was? How many people never felt that they belonged in the space they inhabited? p138
Isle of Palms, by Dorothea Benton Frank, c.2003

ah - I see I have been lax sharing my quotes lol

March 30th ..

p283 Professor Sagan, are you glad to be out of this world? I bet you are. AIDS, overpopulation, homelessness, heart disease, cancer, Ebola virus, anthrax - the list never ends. I bet you are glad you don't have to think about that stuff anymore. I would be glad not to think of it. Are you stardust? Allegra says that's what our spirits become. Gammy says heaven is whatever you want it to be, but God is there and he'll want to chat with you about things you did while you were alive, which sounds to me an awful lot like the principal's office. Buddhists believe your soul passes from one place to another, mostly to a person, according your karma, which is like points on a scale. If you did enough bad things, you could come back as a fire ant. If you did good, you could be a redwood tree in a National Park protected from logging. Personally, I think the best thing to come back as would be a drop of water. People always need water. Just imagine how much a cactus would love you.
Currently reading:
The Owl & Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson, c. 2006

March 29th ..

p161 "Maybe I do. Kids as smart as us are ten times as likely to off ourselves even without the Taylor Fosters of the world. Check out the statistics. Did this day suck or what?"
"It sucked."
"It sucked dead donkey!" Sally yelled. "Green dead donkey dong!"
Currently reading:
The Owl & Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson, c. 2006

March 28th ..

p6 Breathing car fumes was muddling her thinking. What she needed was a lemon tart and a cup of coffee. She'd tell Gammy the news first, grateful for any homespun wisdom her mother might have. "God shuts doors right and left, Mariah. I won't tell you He doesn't. But somewhere you least expect it, a little mouse is gnawing a hole, and right there's the gateway to freedom." Gammy was straitlaced and old-fashioned, but protective as a mother tiger.
Currently reading:
The Owl & Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson, c. 2006